Check out this article from the NY Daily News about how the attacks on teacher tenure are misguided and go after the wrong target. Job protections actually help attract quality educators to the profession! The problem of inner-city schools is not that the dedicated teachers who work in them have too many rights, but that the students who go to them are disadvantaged in many ways, the schools have inadequate resources and the schools are surrounded by communities that are dangerous, lack essential services and are largely segregated both by race and class. Taking the modest job security accorded by tenure away from teachers will address none of these problems.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:33:37 +0000